Ask your hands to know the things they hold

For Helena Minginowicz, what typically falls outside the official worldview—the physicality of routine, emotional exhaustion, uncomfortable affects—takes center stage. The artist directs her gaze toward the realms of unheroic everyday life, tracing the language of wear and tear: minor imperfections, silenced overloads, traces erased by the logic of efficiency.

Minginowicz's work utilizes weakness as a cognitive strategy—a sensitive tool for critiquing an order that rewards resilience, efficiency, and effectiveness, expressed through measurable metrics. In a world that demands constant action, failure and fatigue are considered shameful deviations from the norm.

Can exhaustion be a form of knowledge? For Minginowicz, weakness is not a deficit, but a state that reveals the truth about our living conditions.

Curator: Ada Piekarska